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Saturday evening, as Smith was deep in the world of tenth-century Japan, the line was stretched several people long, and seating was impossible to find...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Customers Take Tea, Time at Brattle Street Bar | 1/14/1998 | See Source »

...Force brass, eager to please the boss, bought the 1,750-lb. English-manufactured Slingsby T-3 and made it mandatory for all cadets to fly the craft if they want to earn their wings. It is a tiny plane, half the length and one-tenth the weight of the F-16, the Air Force's smallest fighter. But its standard, 160-hp engine was not powerful enough to do spins and loops in the thin Rocky Mountain air over the mile-high academy. So a 7.7-liter, 260-hp engine was crammed into the 25-ft.-long plastic fuselage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deadly Trainer | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...Harvard men's basketball team (7-4, 1-0 Ivy) slay a bigger, stronger Dartmouth team and fall a tenth of a second short of an upset, victory over Southern Methodist (SMU) in two of the four games it played over the holiday break...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Basketball Breaks Even Over Break | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

...survey was conducted by telephone from The Crimson. The pollsters began by choosing a random place in a preliminary student phone book, and then called every tenth student. Students who were not home were called again...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Poll Attempts an Unbiased Methodology | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...YORK: Less than a week after U.N. statistics revealed that 1 in 100 of all adults in the world are infected with the HIV virus - and that 90 percent of them don't know about it - Monday saw the tenth observance of World AIDS Day. Nine years since the World Health Organization first declared the event, and there is good reason to be gloomy: "Even in places where we have the education and have the resources, the message isn't always getting through," says TIME Medical Correspondent Christine Gorman. "You see 16-year-olds getting infected - even 15-year-olds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Dying of Ignorance | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

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